Hey, everybody. We've got a great show for you today, Arlen Hamilton back on the program

on the heels of her, raising $5 million, I think it under a week, on Republic.co.

We had Kenna from Republic on the podcast previously, and Sahil, many of you know, equity

crowdfunding, which is where non-accredited investors can invest in startups is booming right now.

And it went from $1 million to $5 million. Arlen took advantage of that opportunity and raised

$5 million. We're going to talk to her about that raise and angel investing overall.

And her plans to increase the number of women and underrepresented founders, people of color

in technology, which is amazing. And she's done such great work and such a great leader and a

friend of the pod. Speaking of ways to increase diversity in the industry and to help founders,

we are accepting applications for Founder University. It's a free two-day program where I get to

meet with founders, 250 of them. I think is what we're doing on Zoom now. We do it four times a year.

The next class is May 3rd and 4th. If you are a founder, if you've gotten your product to the

beta stage, maybe you've got a couple of customers or some beta users, that's good enough for us.

Apply, come. I will hear your pitch if you get in line and you're one of the lucky ones to be able

to pitch. I'll give you candid feedback with my friend Charles Hudson from Precursor VC. He's awesome.

And we've got a ton of speakers coming who give us their time to help founders learn new skills.

And basically, just build your town stack and sharpen your blade as it were.

Had to build a great sales deck, product market fit, benchmarks and metrics that drive your growth,

had to create a million dollar campaign to raise money, marketing strategies for early stage

startups, fundraising advice on how to pick the right investors and keep them on your team and

keep them engaged from a founder perspective, setting up your finances for success. And you'll get

some free legal advice from my great attorneys at Wilson, Cincinnati, Goodrich and Rosati on

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